Sneak peek 2017 Field Report front cover

The 2017 Field Report Cover shows "Gerry's jaw" (found in 2001) next to Bishops whitmorei. Tom has been researching this tiny jaw and will be telling crew and registered Friends exciting things about it on Saturday afternoon.

Field Report Day

Mark your diaries! The 2017 Field Report Presentation Day has been set for Saturday 16 December at Melbourne Museum. More details closer to the date.

John Wilkins's Prep Station

Lesley Kool has been teaching John Wilkins how to prepare our fossils

Busy busy busy

. John has set up a workstation at home complete with a homemade reflector to concentrate the light.  I look forward to be able to report on what he discovers.

Paul Chedgey's workstation

I spoke to long time volunteer Paul Chedgey when I was in the museum the other day and he showed me this photo of the rock-breaking station he had built in his back yard.  Not all the fossil-finding excitement happens on the dig itself.  Between digs, Paul and others like him break down a lot of the offcuts and rejected fossils.  This so reminds me of the Inverloch breaking stations, except that the chair is better and there is no tubby stool next to it holding a cup of tea.

Workstation

Week 3 crew photo

Thanks to Rob Zugaro from Museum Victoria for taking the picture.

Fri 24th - last day at site

Karina finds a fossil

Ali finds a fossil

Nick looks at the fossil layers

Steve photographs the hole

Kevin finds a fossil

Wevetini turns over a rock

Wendy finds a fossil

Mary finds a fossil

Fotini finds a fossil

Gemma finds a fossil

Wendy and Steve apply paraloid

Wendy applies paraloid

James finds a fossil

Thu 23rd - fossils and stretching

Wendy shows off a fossil

Tash finds a fossil

Ross and Karina hold a fossil

Wendy and Steve in the hole

The crew stretches

Wed 22nd - Fossil finds

James finds a fossil

Gemma finds a fossil

Karina finds a fossil

Astrid finds a fossil

Mellisa finds a fossil

Tue 21st - warm sunshine

The tide was lower - our hole survived

Sharon finds a fossil

Darren finds a fossil

Mon 20th - back on the beach but cold

Early morning digging

Mid morning digging

Extracting rock from the hole

Sun 19th - so wet we only spent a couple of hours out in it

The tide filled in our hole - we left it full

Mary breaks rock in the rain

It was so wet!

ABC

Check out the article on the Deakin project at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-17/dinosaur-virtual-reality-3d-using-future-tech-to-visit-past/8278348.

We are in the Colac Herald!

Front page above the fold

Media darlings

Fri 17th - More problems with tides

Digging

Mike had an interesting choice of pump filter cloth...

John and Corrie work the hole

Ali finds a fossil

Alan's geology tour

Alan's geology tour

Thurs 16th - a lovely ornithopod jaw

Dean finds a lovely ornithopod jaw

Stretching...

Stretching...

Jess finds a fossil

Nova finds a fossil

Pretty Teeth

Mary's ornithopod tooth

Allen's plesiosaur tooth

Allen's plesiosaur tooth (counterpart)